The kindle version comes with tons of resources on the Publisher Website.

You get access to:

More than 1,400 practice questions

More than 600 electronic flashcards

Searchable key term glossary

Interactive test engine

This is the book that ISC2 has endorsed and recommend today.

It is by far a lot better than the previous OFFICIAL study guide from ISC2. This book is your study book and the 4th Edition book from ISC2 is what they call the encyclopedia of topics, mostly a checklist to see what is applicable to the exam.

NOTE FROM CLEMENT: This book is a great book from my friend Eric Conrad for whom I have a lot of respect. He's a great author, instructor, security professional, and above all a great person.

THE CISSP STUDY GUIDE BY ERIC CONRAD

This is a smaller book compare to most of the other book. Eric likes to concentrate on what he calls TESTABLE content. The topics that are most likely to show up on the exam without any fluff.

Eric is a great writer and has a unique ability to explain very complex topics in simple terms. This book is highly appreciated by people who have dozens of years of experience. If you have a lot of experience in more than half of the domains, this may be a good choice for you.

This book covers about 96% of what is needed for the exam. There are some topics missing from the book that could show up on the exam. However, someone with dozens of years of experience would know those topics for sure.

This book is the official study book directly from the certification body maintaining the CISSP® certification.

It is a fairly large book. However, there are quite a few of the pages at the back that are for glossary of terms, answers to the quiz questions, which leaves us with about 1069 pages of content on the 8 domains of the new CBK.

The fourth edition is larger in size than the third edition. One of the main reason is the font being use is a lot larger which has significantly increased the number of pages compared with older edition of the book.

This book is the most accurate checklist of the topics that could be seen on the exam. It is not an easy read, it was created by dozens of authors all writing their part of the book. So the tone and style changes as you progress through the book. ISC2 refer to it as the encyclopedia of topics.

ISC2 has hired Adam Gordon to update the content and to add the new topics that were added within the new CBK.

If you have lots of information security experience and you have been studying with the old version, you would still be fine with the old book to prepare for you exam. There is so little that has changed that it does not really justify buying a new version of the book. See my posting about what was added at the link below, all you have to do is supplement you old book with your own research on those new topics and you would be fine. See the list of new topics at:

I am starting preparing for CISSP. I already have Shon Harris All in One (Sixth Edition) book. I may also get SYBEX book -- ISC2 Official Study Guide 7th Edition. There are also two books from Eric Conrad,

- CISSP Study Guide , and

- Eleventh Hour CISSP Study Guide

Confused. What is the best combination of books for CISSP preparation? Pl help.

Some people assume that a topic that is not listed within the official ISC2 study book cannot be a topic on the exam. This article talks about this and let me tell you that even if a topic is NOT within the Official Book, it could very well be on the exam anyway. I will explain within this article why it is the case.

Finally, we have more than one single choice of book to prepare for the CISSP exam. To the surprise of everyone, ISC2 has just endorsed the new book from Sybex and they recommend it for anyone getting ready to take the exam.